Analyzing Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves with SAS

Lehmann Family of ROC Curves

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Lehmann Family of Distributions

6.3 Magnetic Resonance Example

6.4 Adjusting for Covariates

6.5 Using Estimating Equations to Handle Clustered Data

6.6 Comparing Markers Using the Lehmann Family of ROC Curves

6.7 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Lehmann Family of ROC Curves

6.1 Introduction

The first five chapters covered traditional methods of analyzing ROC curves. This chapter presents a different approach to constructing ROC curves for a continuous predictor. This approach has three important advantages in that it

• corresponds to an ROC curve with a very simple functional form
• easily ...